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First, Sauté the Onions
What does it mean to cook a mom's recipe?
Dec 1 • 
Karmela Padavic Callaghan

November 2025

Entangled States
On writing my memoir, now available for pre-order
Nov 24 • 
Karmela Padavic Callaghan
Redesign Your World
Can I write in service of remaking the reader's world?
Nov 17 • 
Karmela Padavic Callaghan
Media/Diet (November '25)
Worms 10 + vegan pumpkin bread
Nov 10 • 
Karmela Padavic Callaghan
The View From Nowhere
Has my religious youth helped me embrace science later on?
Nov 3 • 
Karmela Padavic Callaghan

October 2025

Relational Quantum Mechanics
On watching a film that I feared for years
Oct 27 • 
Karmela Padavic Callaghan
Electrons, Rotations, Galaxies, Colliders
What is it like to report on the science of everything?
Oct 20 • 
Karmela Padavic Callaghan
Reprobate Quantum Geniuses
Why does everyone have something to say about quantum physics?
Oct 13 • 
Karmela Padavic Callaghan
Media/Diet (October '25)
One Battle After Another + A House of Dynamite + vegan banana muffins
Oct 6 • 
Karmela Padavic Callaghan

September 2025

Luminous Spheroids of Plasma
On stories about scientists at the time of (looming) dystopia
Sep 22 • 
Karmela Padavic Callaghan
Media/Diet (September '25)
Upstairs at Eric's by Yazoo + long weekend in Philadelphia
Sep 8 • 
Karmela Padavic Callaghan

August 2025

The Standard Model
On trying to write poetry as a recovering physicist
Aug 25 • 
Karmela Padavic Callaghan
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